From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 00:13:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6709916A4B3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zasran.com (zasran.com [198.144.206.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9729143FA3 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steffl@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zasran.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB0A1D641 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F7BD017.3000409@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:13:27 -0700 From: Erik Steffl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, sk, cs, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200310012305.46092.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> <3F7B9C62.30703@bigfoot.com> <200310021641.57828.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200310021641.57828.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 07:13:29 -0000 JacobRhoden wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 01:32 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: > >> both freeBSD and linux distros (most of them at least) give you >>choice what you install. Just because it's on CD does not mean it's > > > Yes, but RedHat installs piles more junk which you dont use.... (At least last > time I did an install about a year ago.. had things like gaim and other > things I dont even know what are for). you can pick what you want in the beginning (I don't remember exactly how flexibile it is so maybe you really installs more than you need). but nothing is really part of OS, everything is a package (rpm) so you can uninstall pretty much anything you want. different linux distros are different in this area, I know for a fact that mandrake is very flexible in what you need to install (I tried it fairly recently), debian is extremely flexible (you can get few tens of MB net install (I don't remember how much but it's a lot less than one CD), install that and from there you just pick packages you want (it also has some groups that you can install (server, workstation etc.) for people who do not want so much granularity). I just don't think that your fairly general statement about linux distros pushing kitchen sink on you while freeBSD being more traditional unix is true... erik